Lord Jim (Columbia Pictures) (1965)

RICHARD BROOKS Richard Brooks is a disconcerting man to meet. A man of many talents and accomplishments, he still manages to maintain his reserve, his quiet modulated voice, his self-effacement and his amazing poise under the most trying circumstances, and there were many during the filming of “Lord Jim,” the Columbia Pictures release starring Peter O’Toole as Lord Jim in Super Panavision and Technicolor. Brooks is famous for such forthright, compelling motion pictures about American life as “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Elmer Gantry,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Sweet Bird of Youth.” Brooks says: “I was asked why I was filming ‘Lord Jim’ after having filmed so many pictures about my own time in America. ‘Lord Jim’ has a universal theme with which I believe every race, nationality and religious group can identify. It deals with a man’s long struggle to atone for a single act of cowardice. What ~—DALIAH LAV The girl who was to portray Joseph Conrad’s fabulous Eurasian heroine in “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks for Columbia release now at the ..... Theatre in Super Panavision and Technicolor, had to possess a special kind of beauty, a_ particular blending of race, and an equally unique temperament and acting ability. For Brooks, the writerdirector of the screen version of “Lord Jim,’ which stars Peter O’Toole in the title role, these requirements led to a two-year globetrotting talent hunt during which he used studio space in London and Rome to screen-test dozens of actresses from as many countries. But it wasn’t until Brooks was only a month away from his start-of-filming in Hong Kong that he found the actress who possessed all the special qualities he envisioned in the Conrad heroine. She was 20-year-old Daliah Lavi, an Israeli actress born and raised in a_ kibbutz (cooperative farm) near Haifa. “T chose Miss Lavi to play ‘The Girl,’ a Eurasian, not only because of her undeniable talent and beauty, but because her Middle-Eastern background personifies the perfect blending of East and West so necessary to the visual interpretation of Conrad’s story,” explains Brooks. He had seen Daliah in an Italianmade psychological drama called “The Demon,” and had been so impressed by her appearance and her performance that he immediately had her traced, to a small town in the mountains of Yugoslavia where she was making another film. Brooks cabled her to meet him in Trieste and headed in that direction himself. Daliah was at the Austrian border when she received a message to return to her Yugoslavia filming location at once. ‘We had been waiting five days for snow to do a big scene,” Daliah explained. “So, the night I left to meet Richard, what happened? The biggest blizzard in 20 years. I had to go right back.” Brooks signed Daliah unseen and untested. She is the only female star in “Lord Jim,” which also stars James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas and Akim Tamiroff. A sloe-eyed beauty, Daliah Lavi combines a fiery temperament with exotic innocence and age-old wisdom, a combination which Brooks had almost despaired of finding until he discovered Miss Lavi. Although Miss Lavi has surface sophistication acquired through living in three world capitals, plus a fluent command of English, Swedish, Hebrew, French and Italian, she has remained a basically simple girl. “Lord Jim” is a ColumbiaKeep Films co-production with music by Bronislau Kaper. man doesn’t want a_ second chance?” Brooks bought the motion picture rights to “Lord Jim” about six years ago. It took him more than two years to unravel the philosophy of the story—further evidence of his integrity about, and fidelity to, an author’s original material, and an additional year in which to construct a film treatment. In December, 1961, Brooks began writing the screenplay, but decided to acquaint himself with the actual world Joseph Conrad had written into his story. He made six trips to the Far East, exploring the Malayan Archipelago and a score of harbors from the Philippines through the Java and China Seas and Indian Ocean, before finally settling on Hong Kong and Cambodian backgrounds. “Lord Jim” also stars James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as “The Girl.” JACK HAWKINS Despite his early conviction that he was no matinee idol, and that cameramen would never make him look like one, Jack Hawkins is one of the many stars in “Lord Jim.” A film by Richard Brooks in Super Panavision and Technicolor for Columbia release with Peter O’Toole in the title role, “Lord Jim” is now playing at the ........... Theatre. Hawkins, who has attained enviable film, stage and television fame, appears as Marlow, the ship’s captain who tells the story of Lord Jim. Hawkins got his professional start in a parish church choir. His excellent singing voice led some friends to arrange a meeting with the principal of a school for young actors. That started him off. His rugged face, his 6 foot one height, and his solid 180 pounds have contributed mightily to many of the roles Hawkins has played, usually on some rough and tough film location. ‘‘Lawrence of Arabia,” “Bridge on the River Kwai’ and now “Lord Jim” could hardly be considered drawing room assignments. “Lord Jim” is based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, Starred with O’Toole and Hawkins are James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as “The PAUL LUKAS Students of Joseph Conrad who see “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks at the ........ Theatre, also will see a remarkable resemblance to Conrad in actor Paul Lukas, who plays Stein, in a cast headed by Peter O’Toole as Lord Jim. Lukas’ appearance is a result of much research and thought by Brooks, who wrote and directed the Columbia Pictures’ release in Super Panavision and Technicolor. Brooks explains it this way: “Stein is a composite character based on Conrad’s experience in the Far East, representing all that was good among the traders there at the turn of the century. He wrote about this kind of man in all his Far Eastern stories. All Stein’s goodness and philosophy could be found in his own character, which was formed in the same way and in the same places. “When I first met Paul Lukas, he was carrying the first American edition of ‘Lord Jim’ with a frontispiece of the Jo Davidson bust of Conrad. Lukas bore a superficial likeness to Conrad, and I decided I’d like him to grow a beard to underline this. It seemed the right concept.” Lukas, with patriarchal bearing, old-fashioned gabardine suit and waistcoat, gold watch chain and Panama hat, is the image of the author as an old man. ELI WALLACH “Film acting is like making love and being interrupted every two seconds by someone saying, ‘Wait, hold it, we’ve got to change the lighting. Hold it. W-a-i-t!’” So says Eli Wallach, a distinguished Broadway and _ screen actor who is currently starring in “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks in Super Panavision and Technicolor. A Columbia release with Peter O’Toole in the title role, and now playing at igo te Theatre, “Lord Jim” also stars James Mason, Curt Jurgens, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Akim Tamiroff and Daliah Lavi as “The Girl.” Wallach plays a Southeast Asian warlord; he has been a villain in most of his screen roles. One who made Wallach’s transition from stage to screen easier was director Elia Kazan, who had directed him in several Tennessee Williams plays on Broadway. It was Kazan who chose him for the villain’s role in “Baby Doll,” Wallach’s first film. “Kazan uses many stage techniques in his films. such as giving the actors plenty of rehearsal time,” Wallach explained on the set of “Lord Jim.” “But I’ve worked with many motion picture directors who spend hours lighting the scene, getting the props in place and checking out all the technical details. Then they scream for the actor, push him into position, yell ‘Action!’ and expect him to turn it on— just like that.” Originally determined to become a teacher, Wallach completed his education with a Master’s degree from the City Collage of New York in 1938. But there were few teaching jobs available in that end-of-the-depression era, and Wallach was encouraged by his parents to try for a career in the theatre. Wallach trained with the wellknown Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and made his professional debut in an Equity Theatre presentation of Tennessee William’s one-acter, “This Property is Condemned.” When the Actor’s Studio was formed in 1948 by Kazan and playwright Williams, it led Wallach to leading roles in the Broadway productions of “The Rose Tattoo” and “Camino Real” and his first film part in “Baby Doll.” He has recently appeared on the screen in “The Magnificent Seven,” “The Misfits,” “How the West Was Won,” “The Victors,” “Act One,” “The Moonspinners” and “Kisses For My President.” FROM ALL OVER! There is a unique cosmopolitan flavor to the cast of “Lord Jim,” a film by Richard Brooks in Super Panavision and Technicolor for Columbia release at the Theatre with Peter O’Toole in the title role. Nationalities represented are Irish-English (O’Toole), Austrian (Curt Jurgens), HungarianAmerican (Paul Lukas), American (Eli Wallach and Richard Brooks), Japanese (Ichizo Itami and Tatsuo Saito) and Israeli (Daliah Lavi who plays “The Girl’), The actors could converse among themselves fluently in English, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Japanese, French and Hebrew, and O’Toole even had some Arabic left over from his “Lawrence of Arabia” days. They left their homes in Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Israel—in New York, California, Tokyo, Rome, Dublin, Paris and a suburb of London to journey to Cambodia and Hong Kong for the film. Truly, the motion picture screen encompasses a wide, wide, wide, wide world! Based upon the famous novel “Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad, Richard Brooks wrote the screenplay and directed the film as a Columbia-Keep Films co-production. 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Michael Stevenson PRG MMIMRORI cM ric cd a he ee Gordon Bond LO 1: 5 Re le RR Cr ati Da ee => Ase: ano Angela Martelli A Film by Richard Brooks Filmed in Super Panavision® Technicolor® A Columbia Pictures Release-Keep Films Co-Production STORY (Not for Publication) — Jim, a ship's officer in the Mercantile Marine, is an incurable romantic and idealist, a dreamer of heroic dreams who yearns for the day when his mettle will be tested and proved. When that day comes, on the pilgrim ship S.S. Patna sailing Eastern seas, Jim's overactive imagination betrays him. In a moment of weakness, Jim commits an act of cowardice that results in the cancellation of his sailing papers and his expulsion from polite Western society. Jim's search for a second chance takes him deep into the unmapped jungles of the East, to a trading post in Patusan, where a feudal warlord is terrorizing the peace-loving native population. In Patusan, Jim's search for redemption and the second chance to prove himself comes full circle as the spectre of his former cowardice is resurrected and his courage is tried once again in a time of crisis. This time he is judged not by the unwritten moral laws of the West, but by the strict code which guides the people of the ancient Eastern civilization of Patusan. Running Time: 154 Minutes Page 19